http://www.hrretention.com Blog about Employee Retention Techniques Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:27:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Paul Levett commercial director for SHL Group sent a letter to People Management commenting that he is very concerned that major UK employers have cut their graduate recruitment schemes. Paul states that graduate trainees are the future managers and leaders, brought in fresh and eager to learn. I am a ... http://www.hrretention.com/graduate-time-bomb/ People Management featured an article within their Law At Work section on 27 August 2009 about rehiring redundant employees. The article was very interesting calling the employees “boomerang employees” and stating that many US companies are already rehiring employees previously made redundant. The article is quite positive about the benefits ... http://www.hrretention.com/how-to-rehire-redundant-employees-without-the-catches/ The new pay code for city bankers is featured regularly at the moment; even I have mentioned it before in my blogs. The argument against the code is generally that it will drive away talent, but will it really? Other business sectors have high flying executives that get bonuses, they ... http://www.hrretention.com/is-the-new-pay-code-for-city-bankers-practical/ There are lots of articles surrounding this issue at the moment but are businesses really planning long term? Many businesses are pulling recruitment and looking to reduce employees hours but are there other ways of doing drastic money saving exercises? Yes there are, even the most affective industry is ignoring ... http://www.hrretention.com/downturn-hasn%e2%80%99t-ended-the-war-for-talent%e2%80%a6/ We constantly hear on the news about redundancies at the moment, does this mean that businesses don't have to worry about retention techniques because there will be more people to recruit from? Well I believe the opposite is true. Being able to keep your best employees and helping your employees ... http://www.hrretention.com/current-climate-issues/ Whats the difference in a well organised office? Will answer the question soon! http://www.hrretention.com/computers-and-knowledge-banks/ Knowledge Banks are an ideal way of coping with the major issue of capturing the vital knowledge of your experienced staff. We are experiencing the start of a problem of an aging workforce and a skills shortage issue with younger potential employees. I believe that utilising Knowledge Banks and working directly ... http://www.hrretention.com/using-knowledge-banks-to-help-retention/ A hot topic currently in the news is the public sector pay schemes. In the public sector pay increases are around 3-4 % on average across the sector, which is above the rate of inflation 2.1% and inline with the “experts, true” rate of inflation, 3.9% but is it enough? Private sector ... http://www.hrretention.com/pay-to-keep-the-best/ Welcome to HRRetention.com, the best blog on the web for retention techniques!!! http://www.hrretention.com/a-new-year-a-new-start/ So close, yet so much to do… We aim to have our website and blogs fully running by 2008! http://www.hrretention.com/blog2/